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Research Data Alliance: Scientific Data Exchange and Interoperability

• When: Oct 1-3, 2012
• Where: Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
• What:
  • Research Data Alliance Meeting (formerly split as Global Data Meeting Oct 1-2 and Data Web Forum Oct 2-3) Agenda
    • Global Data Meeting (was Global Data Consortium). Mon-Tue Oct 1-2 2012.
      • Peter Wittenberg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) organizer, Rebecca Koskela (U New Mexico) local organizer.
    • Research Data Alliance (RDA) (was Data Web Forum or Data2012 part 2) Planning Meeting. Tue-Wed Oct 2-3 2012.
      • Beth Plale (Indiana Univ) and Fran Berman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Organizers. Robert Ping (IU) local arrangements.
      • Registration is now closed, contact Robert Ping for details.
• Why attend: The Global Data meeting is an outgrowth of Data Access and Interoperability Task Force (http://www.daitf.org/) who met most recently in Copenhagen in May 2012. This first two days will be spent discussing the technical and policy data challenges the consortium has raised and the Research Data Alliance's role in solving them. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Planning meeting will begin the work of organizing the RDA (was Data Web Forum), see DWF concept paper. See http://www.rd-alliance.org/ for additional information.
• Notes from organizer: The RDA planning meeting is an outgrowth of the DataNet/INTEROP PI meeting held in Indianapolis, IN January 2012. Neither of these October meetings is an official "PI meeting" which has obligatory attendance requirements under terms of grant. We offer travel funds as needed. Please indicate your need for travel assistance on the registration form.

Data Consortium Summary of 2012 Initiatives

Oct 2012: Scientific Data Exchange and Interoperability: Two Co-located and Synergistic Meetings
July 2012: BoF: Data Set Identifier Interoperability (DSII) at IETF 84 (Vancouver)]
July 2012: Panel at XSEDE'12: Managing the Long Tail of Science: Data and Communities
Jan 2012: Coming Together Around Data: A PI Meeting for Datanet/INTEROP

Data Consortium Steering Committee

A steering committee was formed out of the Coming Together Around Data meeting January 2012. Its purpose is to keep the grass roots activities identified at the January meeting moving forward. This group is made up of:

• Beth Plale, Indiana Univ
• Chaitanya Baru, SDSC
• Ruth Duerr, NSIDC
• Ian Foster, ANL
• Dennis Gannon, Microsoft
• John Kunze, California Digital Library
• Andrew Maffei, Woods Hole
• Robert McDonald, Indiana Univ
• William Michnener, Univ New Mexico, DataOne
• Reagan Moore, UNC, DFC
• Arcot Rajasekar, UNC, DFC
• Steven Ruggles, Univ Minnesota, TerraPop
• Nancy Wiegand, Univ Wisconsin

Coming Together Around Data, Jan 2012, Indianapolis, IN

Coming Together Around Data: A PI Meeting for Datanet/INTEROP, now passed, was a highly successful event gauged by the level of participant interaction and engagement. One can see how the meeting unfolded and objectives emerged by taking a look at these overview slides

• Plale Overview

and you can find individual presentations linked next to the presenters name in the agenda below. The 2 page whitepaper resulting from the workshop is below; we heartily welcome your comments.

• White Paper submitted 2/23/2012

Thanks to all who attended for a highly productive and engaging workshop.

Cheerfully, Beth Plale